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Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) workers, which include teaching assistants and graduate assistants at the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, march around the campus as they begin a strike over wages and fees on April 18, 2022.

UIC graduate workers begin striking

Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) workers, which include teaching assistants and graduate assistants at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) campus, march around University Hall on the Chicago campus as they begin...
A cast of giant Triassic-period amphibian discovered in Australia, which would have roamed the oceans about 235 million years old, is part of the Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep at Field Museum

Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep at the Field Museum, co-presented by the Natural History Museum in London, shows off the predators that reigned our prehistoric oceans while dinosaurs walked...
Chicago firefighters hand out smoke detectors to residents near the scene of a fire that left two dead on the 3600 block of North Kedvale Avenue in Chicago's Old Irving Park neighborhood on Feb. 8, 2022.

2 dead in Old Irving Park fire

An 88-year-old woman and her 70-year-old son were found dead following a fire in an apartment early Tuesday in Chicago's Old Irving Park neighborhood.
Francis Almeda at his coffee shop, Side Practice Coffee, in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood on Feb. 3, 2022. Almeda was set to open his coffee shop in February 2020, until the pandemic waylaid his plans. When he did open in July 2020, he began bringing in products and foods made by small businesses, startups and other food-related entrepreneurs. As word spread, his coffee shop became known as a place where creators could gain some traction.

Side Practice Coffee in Ravenswood

Francis Almeda was set to open his coffee shop in February 2020, until the pandemic waylaid his plans. When he did open in July 2020, he began bringing in products...